are all your posts grey to start saying pending approval? it seems one of my posts go through. i think i need enough ppl to click “show hidden” and star my comments before it un-shadow bans me

Not used to seeing a blue sky on Mars (apparently sunsets are blue-ish)

NASA’s ‘Other’ Mars Rover Sends Back a Selfie to Remind Us It Still Exists

OK, Isaac, but I believe that spider gods are still arachnids. Transcendent arachnids, but still arachnids.

Aaargh. Spiders aren’t insects.

NASA has said that this is the 2nd stage from the Falcon 9 burning up on re-entry as it had an unsuccessful de-orbit burn. They are waiting to confirm this though, so it’s probably aliens.

Honestly, from everything I’ve seen and heard about this platform (it sounds like it’s literally just TikTok, also that logo is a nightmare) the name is the only good part. It’s actually kind of catchy and clever. Unfortunately, that comes nowhere close to redeeming this pile of garbage, a network that is somehow…

If there is anything that I can trust the Internet to do - that would be testing all the boundaries of what they can get away with. And testing even for the sake of testing, to see what happens.

It’s totally against all forms of censorship and the most open environment possible.

so, how long before it gets shut down for being a haven for sex trafficking, black market gun/drug sales and child pornography?

I actually don’t hate the name; it’s catchy and clever, as far as social media names go. It’s not terrible. No worse than Twitter or Parler.

6 left turns on what is clearly a busy street that has people driving at multiple rates of speed, making it hard to judge when to turn. I mean, there are obviously people going way too fast and then people driving way too slow on that road he’s attempting to cross. So let’s not act like this is a 1/3 chance of the car…

Because object detection, from an overhead perspective, is FAR simpler and more accurate than object detection at ground level — every object is neatly distinct and without any overlap. So instead of learning how to crawl, walk, run, and fly all at the same time, while still working out how to see and understand, too,…

Just make autonomous cars Johnny Cabs. Anything else, drive yourself. This hybrid system is dangerous and stupid. If you can be trusted to drive then you should be driving. The idea that a half involved person should be ready to react to negative road conditions the moment control is forced over by the computer is…

Am I surprised by this? No. It’s a BETA. The real issue is with with Tesla’s marketing of it as Autopilot.

on my soapbox;

We’ve all seen people on the road do far, far worse than the Tesla managed. It looks like it’s in the 50th percentile of drivers right now. Still a ways to go.

Turning the steering wheel left while stopped is a serious hazard! The wheels should remain straight ahead until the turn is initiated. If the vehicle is rear-ended with the front wheels turned, it will enter the oncoming lanes of traffic.

That looks somewhat better than the human drivers around here.

It doesn’t seem to be doing anything wrong, per se. But the fact that the vehicle would make a different decision than me, and the rest of my body wouldn’t be prepared for the acceleration and turn, would likely result in frustration. And nausea.